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Solid Gold is the place to view Australia''s most precious gems including: Argyle''s rarest pink, pink champagne and white diamonds; Australian Opals and the finest South Sea Pearls. Solid Gold is also the exclusive Western Australian stockist for ''...more
Windy Hill Wind Farm is Queensland''s largest wind farm with 20 windmills producing enough power for 3500 homes. Windy Hill Wind Farm is located about three kilometres from Ravenshoe, which is situated 920 metres above sea level (highest town in ...more
An open air museum consisting of a former colliery site and 3 kilometres of rail line. The State Mine Heritage Park and Railway offers Mine museum guided tours, coal mining displays, picnic areas and Heritage rolling stock and machinery....more
Situated in maritime Fremantle, Kailis Australian Pearls retails rare and exquisite Australian South Sea pearls from the Kailis family- owned farms in the waters off Western Australia’s northern Kimberley coast and Northern Territory. It is pioneers of ...more
Tambo Teddies all began in 1992 as a result of a Future Search Workshop (a government incentive to create jobs in country towns). Two days of brainstorming came up with the idea of Teddy Bears being made out of wool. Popular opinion said it wouldn’t ...more
The Useless Loop township is a closed mining town run by Shark Bay Salt Joint Venture. Shark Bay Salt Joint Venture exports the purest grade salt in the world from its solar salt mine at Useless Loop. Visitors must obtain permission from the company ...more
The first Maryborough sugar to be manufactured was in 1864 when John Buhot demonstrated sugar making using cane grown from John Eatons plantation Rose Hill Estate. The Maryborough Sugar Factory began in 1886 as a juice mill in the Island Plantation area. ...more
The Opal Cutter is Coober Pedy''s finest underground opal shop, run by Barbara Lamont who has been in the opal industry for over 20 years. We pride ourselves on our quality, unique handcrafted jewellery and friendly service. Our products are fully ...more
Visit the largest Aquaculture operation in the North West. See over 100 species of marine and fresh water fish - everything from coral to crayfish!...more
The mines lie in rugged, heavily wooded country, 32 kilometres east of Glen Innes on the Red Range Road. Totaling over 60 separate workings scattered over a fairly small area, the mines were originally worked for bismuth in the late 1800''s. Around the ...more










